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  • welcome to watch Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 Best Songs of 2020 I'm Thauvin Judge Classic Oh Ji Rak for this list will be looking at the best songs that blew up in 2020 even if they were technically released in some form in 2019.

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  • Number 10.

  • Breathe deeper.

  • Tame Impala expectations were sky high for Tame Impala's fourth album, The Slow Rush.

  • It was their first in nearly five years, and Currents was widely heralded as one of the greatest albums of the 20 tens, even making Rolling Stones updated list of the 500 greatest albums of all time going Come On, The slow rush didn't disappoint.

  • And while it's filled with great psychedelic disco music, breathe deeper is simply magnetic.

  • The inspirations air many from daft punk to Mariah Carey to Farrell, and it conveys a feeling of pure ecstasy.

  • No one else out there is writing music like Tame Impala.

  • Oh, number nine Dynamite BTS!

  • A fascinating South Korean boy band BTS is one of the biggest names in the current music landscape, and they made their English language debut with 20 twenties Dynamite.

  • Much like Breathe Deeper, Dynamite takes heavy inspiration from seventies disco and funk, complete with since horns, harmonies and a pulsing baseline.

  • Of course, the song is also imbued with mainstream pop sensibilities to ensure worldwide radio play and tonight, and it was certainly successful in that regard.

  • Dynamite became the band's first number one song in the United States, and the accompanying music video set numerous world records, including most viewed YouTube video in 24 hours, hitting 101 million.

  • Their goal was to bring some happiness to 2020 and it seems like they succeeded.

  • Number eight Cardigan Taylor Swift Vintage T Brand New phone.

  • On July 24th, Taylor Swift surprised the world with folklore, her eighth and arguably best studio album.

  • Written and recorded in quarantine, Swift completely does away with her recent pop bombast and delivers a delicate and emotional folk record that both fans and critics eagerly lapped up.

  • But I know it's filled with many great tunes, including Exile and Cardigan.

  • The latter is particularly beautiful, and critics praised the songs sparse production of piano and strings swifts, warm vocal performance and the stunningly beautiful and poignant lyrics.

  • The themes air still very Taylor Swift, but the song writing is more mature and introspective.

  • Hopefully, this heralds more great things for Swifts career throughout the upcoming decade, E felt like I waas old number seven Say so does a Cat E 2020 seemed to be the year of the seventies Renaissance.

  • Both does a Cat say so and the accompanying music video are steeped in disco, and it is glorious Dog.

  • A cat saw her first truly massive single with 20 twenties say so from the 2019 album Hot Pink, with it becoming her first number one in America and going platinum in nine different countries.

  • Theme Song performed with Nicki Minaj, is a proud anthem to female sexuality and is backed by a sexy disco beat.

  • The wild success of the song is a confident heralding of pop music's next big star number six.

  • I Know the End, Phoebe Bridgers Somewhere in Germany, but I can't place it.

  • Ella's Phoebe Bridgers released her second studio album, Punisher, in 2020.

  • Filled with morose M o folk, Punisher was widely acclaimed by critics and contains both the excellent Garden Song and I Know the End, also known as one of the best songs of the entire year.

  • Serving as the album's loud and proud finale, I Know the End makes a declarative statement for Punisher.

  • Sardonic themes you had Thio Song starts quietly before, segueing into distorted guitars and melancholy strings and crescendoing with horn blasts, Cymbal crashes and haunting screams.

  • It sounds like the apocalypse, and it makes for both terrifying and gorgeous music.

  • Number five, Rain on Me, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande.

  • It's Coming Down on Me, a collaboration between Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, is just what 2020 needed.

  • Both artists released great songs throughout the year, including Gaga's Stupid Love and Grandes Positions.

  • But Rain On Me proves the best of both artists.

  • The song is empowering, urging its listeners toe hold steady and accept difficult times with confidence and pride in order to come out a better and stronger person.

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  • In many ways, it's the defining song of the chaotic year that was 2020 positive message aside, it's also just a straight banger from two of the leading pop artists of our time.

  • It's pure pop enjoyment, complete with a Cynthy beat from blood pop and Burns.

  • Grand is typically angelic vocals and gaga sense of unintended fun.

  • It's just the song we needed.

  • Least we're trying Number four Watermelon Sugar, Harry Styles Breathe Me, Breathe Me Short and sweet Watermelon Sugar comes in at just under three minutes but contains more enjoyment than some entire albums.

  • 2020 was a great year for Harry Styles as both this and adore you enjoyed major commercial success.

  • Watermelon Sugar was originally written back in 2017, but it wasn't released.

  • A za single until May 15th, just in time to be the song of the summer on Song of the Summer, It Waas reaching the top 10 in more than 20 countries around the world and becoming styles.

  • First number one on the Hot 100 complete with the summer themed lyrics and funky production from Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon.

  • Watermelon sugar, much like its titular fruit, proved irresistible in the summer heat.

  • Number three Xs Rina Sasayama Cardi a C slacks is Katla basses Things Japanese born British songwriter released her debut album in 2020 Sayama was widely praised by critics and filled with some glorious to thousands nostalgia.

  • Perhaps the song most indicative of the album's success is excess, as described by Sayama herself, excesses about the hypocrisy of capitalism and selfish consumerism in a post climate change world, threatening us with possible extinction a little bit more.

  • Oh, we don't mind here.

  • Only toe help get the doomed message across.

  • Sasayama employs musical sounds and motifs from the early two thousands, which, according to her quote, reminds you of a time when everything was all right.

  • It's a fiercely satirical and sharply critical song that blends elements of bubble gum, pop R and B and crunching guitars.

  • Number two Savage Megan The Stallion will forever be that bad Things Tracks cemented Megan The Stallion Status is a major mainstream talent with the help of a tick tock trend and an eventual remix with Beyonce Savage shot to the top of the hot 100 in the spring of 2020 produced by J.

  • White Didn't Savage features Megan the Stallion rapping over a smooth keyboard, beat I'm a savage, classy Oji Ratchet.

  • Sassy, moody.

  • Hey, most of the credit goes to Megan's rapping and the catchy chorus as the song proves instantly addictive.

  • The Beyonce remix elevated savage to the stratosphere as the queen's seamlessly road.

  • The Beat reminded us all of her commendable wrapping skills and added some welcomed flourishes to the track.

  • This is a new funky classic because she might start only before we unveil our number one pick.

  • Here are a few honorable mentions.

  • Good news, Mac Miller.

  • This posthumous release proved Miller's most successful on the hot 100.

  • Good nose, nose, nose.

  • That's how they wanna have gas later.

  • The Chicks, the group's first single in over a decade, was a welcome return.

  • Anything Theodore are talking The Strokes.

  • The first track on their brilliant album, the new Abnormal Heavy balloon.

  • Fiona Apple.

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  • It's a no number one Blinding Lights the weekend I've Been on my own things.

  • Canadian artist released after hours at the beginning of the Cove it era and approved just what we needed for such a tumultuous time.

  • The album is filled with bangers, including the titular epic, but the weekend captured the world with blinding lights.

  • Released as a single in late 2019 but Onley achieving massive success in 2020 the song is dominated by a pulsing and piercing synth track that introduces elements of eighties new wave to the R and B artists music.

  • His smooth and sultry voice does the rest and propelled blinding lights to reach number one in 34 countries.

  • It also spent a record 31 weeks in the top five of the hot 100 indicating the weekends complete command of his flourishing fandom.

  • With both a new look and a new sound, the weekend reinvented himself in spectacular fashion.

  • Oh, I can't sleep, Pinto Phileo such Do you agree with our picks?

welcome to watch Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 Best Songs of 2020 I'm Thauvin Judge Classic Oh Ji Rak for this list will be looking at the best songs that blew up in 2020 even if they were technically released in some form in 2019.

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